College should be in quotes. It wasn’t that long ago in the larger scheme of things that european and american schools of higher learning turned out great men and women that changed things forever. Who has heard of Emmy Noether?
I’ve been waiting for years for Congress to pull heads of university’s in front of hearings to explain why they are gouging the American people.
If big oil and big pharma are gouging then colleges are the masters because the formers have nothing on the latter when it comes to gouging.
Universities are obsolete. You can get all of your liberal arts education online and basically for free. The only thing you get from a university for your $100,000 is a certificate that says your were stupid enough to pay for an education you could have given yourself for free if you were self motivated.
I get the feeling that the author did not study science, technology, engineering, or mathematics.
College is ripping you off
Well Duh....
The liberal dream being realized...
These professors are a product of the system which produces people who are not employable anywhere BUT a campus.
Trust me I work at a university.
There are ‘professors’ here who could NOT be employed off this campus....for MANY reasons
Today, college is nothing more than getting your ticket to join the “college club.” You can’t join the “club” unless you have a ticket.
The most important feature of the “ticket” is that you can “network” (kiss ass, party, socialize etc...) with other members of the club and help one another to stay employed regardless as to your productivity or value to the company.
In many aspects a college education is actually valuable to society (doctors, engineers etc...) but most degrees are absolutely useless.
The only way to ensure an individual’s future is to learn a trade that is actually needed by society, not a profession that solely exists upon government regulations or requirements.
We don’t need no fancy book kearnin’!
I sent my kids to state schools, and they commuted. Others, especially those in the Northeast that don’t have such easy options, can spend their retirement on their kids’ partying.
A surprisingly good article until the last three paragraphs. The author describes the problems quite well, but misses the cause of these problems entirely.
In the late 70s the department of education was stood up and federal student aid started flowing. Like anything else non-constitutional that the fedgov touches, higher education soon turned to crap.
degress in womyns studies, gay studies etc replaced useful knowledge. After all, someone else was paying for it, so we may as well have fun and party.
So what is the author’s proposed solution? Even MORE government interference.
The college fiasco can be easily fixed. Cut all government financial aid and make the student pay for their own schooling. We’d see far more technolgy degrees (STEM) and far fewer burger flipper degrees, and costs will go down.